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yesterday was the grand opening for the general public and this weekend marks the library s long-anticipated inaugural weekend. and if you re going to be in dallas over the next few delays, i m telling you, you just must check it out. if only for the shock value. last night on this show, rachel discussed the main attraction inside the new bush library. which is an exhibit called decision point theater. it s basically an interactive game where you can reenact the biggest decisions that george w. bush had to make as president. decisions like should we invade iraq. the problem, as rachel pointed out last night, when you try to say no, we should not invade! please let s do anything but invade iraq! president bush pops up on the screen and starts making the case of all the overwhelming evidence against saddam hussein. evidence that has since been thoroughly discredited ten years later in what s supposed to be a library is being taught as fact
violence. thank you. thank you. more to come. big news from a little state about same sex marriage. later, the new george w. bush library remembers hurricane katrina. i m serious. first, one more thing about the background vote check last month, republican senator kelly ayotte was not the only senator to be held in account for her vote. senator john mccain, who split with his party on this, voted for background checks, he had a town hall meeting, too, and a former aide to gabby giffords wounded in the same mass shooting in tucson that almost killed the congresswoman, she showed up directly to speak to senator mccain. i would like to thank you very much for your vote. that was pam simon, former aide to congresswoman gabby giffords and former family violence survivor. they were not made unanimously.
that saddam hussein was an imminent threat who must be dealt with unilaterally if necessary. so there is a certain shock value to the new bush library. but if the iraq war isn t exactly your thing if you want to relive the glory of another bush decision, the george w. bush library gives you the opportunity to do that. take a look at the list of scenarios in front of me. first, you will select which one you want to tackle. the majority of the theater chose hurricane katrina. yep, hurricane katrina. what is the decision point that the bush library asks you to confront when it comes to hurricane katrina? a disaster in which nearly 2,000 americans died, many in their own homes. what s the decision point that s laid before you at the bush library? officials in new orleans are overwhelmed. the president can send in troops, but those troops would serve in supporting roles and state efforts and would not have law enforcement powers unless the president invokes what s called the insurrect
president bush had to make a choice. one, rely on the national guard and local police. two, send in federal troops in a supporting role with no law enforcement authority. three, invoke the insurrection act and send in troops to restore order. excuse me, restoring order was the problem when it it came to hurricane katrina, seriously? the main dilemma faced by president bush when it came to the government s response to hurricane katrina was quelling disorder? the bush library takes you through this whole scenario about how to deal with the problem of looters and how to restore law and order in new orleans. that is the decision point. no mention at all of, you know, search and rescue. eight years later, the people of new orleans who were basically left to starve and dehydrate and die in our city, mostly elderly people and children, eight years later, these people are memorialized at the bush library as public enemies, not as citizens who were in need of relief.